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George De Leon, David Best, Wendy Dawson, Brian Kidd, Tim McSweeney, Mark Gilman, Alex Stevens, Betsy Thom, Albert Zandvoort, Kuladharini

The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice.Tackling Addiction examines what recovery, addiction and dependence really mean, not only to the profe...

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Johannah Gilman Paiva

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Carrington MacDuffie, Stephanie Willing, Laural Merlington, Pete Cross

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Guess How Much I Love

Do you love Texas so much that you want to tell your friends and family all about it? We know the feeling! Take them on a tour of the best things about Texas! From Big Bend National Park, to the Texas State Fair, to the Dallas Farmers Market, to the Alamo, all audiences will learn fun facts showing them how much they, too, will love Texas!

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Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles W Chesnutt

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

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O. Henry, Mark Twain, Saki, Johann Peter Hebel, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Ring Lardner, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Voltaire

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Mark Bowen, Jim Gerard

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study.Contents:The Cop and the Anthem by O. HenryThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenryWhat Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark TwainThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark TwainThe Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro)The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter HebelFrom The Surprising Adventures...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Mark Bowen

What happens when a woman dares to imagine power in a world that denies her even autonomy?In this sharp, sly, and subversive tale, one of America's most original feminist voices turns the tables on society with cool precision and a dash of irony. Written at a time when women were expected to remain silent and self-sacrificing, this short work pulses with quiet rebellion and razor-edged wit.The author, best known for The Yellow Wallpaper and Women and Economics

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Willa Cather, Mikhail Bulgakov, E T A Hoffman, E T A Hoffman, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Barry Pain, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Mansfield, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Tom MacLean

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...

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Leo Tolstoy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barry Pain, Mark Twain, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, Nikolai Gogol, Guy De Maupassant

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Ian Holm, Richard Mitchley, Liza Ross

The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records.Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world.For most people the diary is a way to record the milestones of life; a birthday, a new love, the passing of someone as well as the minutiae of everyday life that seems worth passing into written memory.It may be a daily task, or an occas...

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Jack London, Edgar Alan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fredric Brown, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Edward Page Mitchell, H P Lovecraft, Elia W Peattie, Willa Cather, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Katherine Rickford, Tod Robbins

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Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Michael Lyons

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into sentences and paragraphs that ease themselves from the shadows and are sudden...

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H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Katherine Mansfield, Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Susan Glaspell, Kate Chopin, Laura E. Richards, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Mark Twain, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky, Leonid Andreyev, Ivan Turgenev, Joseph Conrad, Aleksander Pushkin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert E. Howard, G. K. Chesterton, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Talbot Mundy, Abraham Merritt, Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Washington Irving, August Nemo

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Best Short Stories Omnibus

This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Al...

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various authors, James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, Robert E. Howard, Henry Cuyler Bunner, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Richard Jeffries, O. Henry, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Abraham Lincoln, Sherwood Anderson, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Joe Archibald, Anton Chekhov, W. W. Jacobs, Guy de Maupassant, Louisa May Alcott, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Lang, Robert W. Chambers, Washington Irving, Giovanni Boccaccio, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Hans Christian Andersen, Hector Hugh Munro

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various narrators, H. P. Lovecraft, John Lee, Mark Turetsky, John McLain, Diane Havens, Dick Hill, Simon Vance, John Pruden, Arielle DeLisle, Jo Anna Perrin, Dion Graham, Amy Rubinate, Kyle Munley, Adam Verner, Rachel Fulginiti, Cris Dukehart, Coleen Marlo, Susan Ericksen, Oliver Wyman, Gabrielle de Cuir, Johnny Heller, Tish Hicks, Kaleo Griffith, David Drummond, Karen White, Peter Berkrot, Vanessa Hart, Patrick Lawlor, Jeffrey Kafer, Hillary Huber, Gary Dikeos, Luke Daniels, Stefan Rudnicki, Robert Fass, Cassandra Campbell, Robin Ray Eller, Xe Sands, Scott O’Neill, Richard Powers

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The Going Public … in Shorts Series

From haunting ghost stories to classic fairy tales, Going Public … In Shorts! is a collection of forty classic and lesser-known works by history's greatest writers.Among the stories included are "The Death of a Government Clerk," Anton Chekhov's defining vignette; "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain's comedic story that earned him national fame; "The Gift of the Magi," O. Henry's masterful Christmastime tale about love and sacrifice; and "The Stor...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Most people know Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes. But he was a prolific writer throughout his long career, producing far more than just the Holmes mysteries. This volume assembles 65 of his non-Sherlockian tales, covering a wide range of subjects: mysteries, adventure, supernatural, medical, nautical, and pugelist stories are just the tip of the iceberg! Here, in more than 1,100 pages, is one of the largest collections of Doyle short stories ever published. Included are: THE LOS...

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A.T. Quiller-Couch, Amelia B. Edwards, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Richard Middleton

We return for another selection of 25 ghost stories in the classic tradition -- chosen from the vast storehouse of history's fiction for your personal delectation. As in our last meeting, we remind you that there are many kinds of ghosts, from the kind to cruel, the savage to the sad, and readers should not always assume they know just which they've gotten in any particular tale. Included are:THE SEVENTH MAN, by A.T. Quiller-CouchTHE PHANTOM COACH, by Amelia B. Edwards...